How to Break Your Apps Before I Do - Nick Arnott at 360iDev

Double Encore's QA expert Nick Arnott shares some QA tips for developers at #360iDev 2013

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1. How to Break Your
   Apps Before I Do
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2. Nick Arnott
   @noir
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3. Elements
   Launch Center Pro
   Screens 3
   Perfect Weather
   Vesper Fantastical
   Justin Williams is
   Lazy
   Resolve
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4. What is QA?
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6. Shifting Your Thinking
   •Challenging assumptions
   •You missed a spot
   •Prove it doesn’t work
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7. Often Missed
   Scenarios
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8. Extended Status Bar
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9. Poor Network Conditions
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10. No Configured Accounts
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11. Insufficient Permission
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12. Restrictions
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13. Security
    • Use TLS/SSL
    •No self-signed certificates
    •Users can still tamper with traffic
    Network
    Device Data
    •Secure sensitive user data
    •Users can tamper with data
    •Don’t leave your goodies
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14. Sounds easy, let’s go!
    Sounds easy, let’s go!
    Not so fast.
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15. If not me, then who?
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16. Finding Testers
    •Ask publicly
    •Having a screening process
    •Talk to other developers
    •Quality assurance, not quantity
    assurance
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17. Keeping testers
    engaged
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18. Strategic Releases
    •Timely releases - don’t be too noisy
    •Communicate your timeframe
    •Release candidate?
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19. Release Notes
    •Known issues
    •Fixed issues
    •Major changes
    •Complete features
    •Incomplete features
    •Focus areas
    •Clear and concise
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20. Don’t Discourage Bugs
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21. When Feedback Drops Off
    (Don’t panic)
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22. Collaboration
    Building a beta community
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23. Bug Tracking
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24. Show Your
    Appreciation
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25. What Comes After Shipping
    Hint: QA isn’t over.
    •Crash reports
    •App Store reviews
    •Support
    •Retrospective
    •On to the next one
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26. Final Thoughts
    •Having a good testing mentality
    •Identifying missed scenarios
    •Getting the most out of testing
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27. Thank you
    Nick Arnott
    @noir
    nick@neglectedpotential.com
    bit.ly/360iDevQA
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